WELS True North Sponsors "Jesus Challenge"

Next Tuesday on the 24th is the Jesus Challenge. We are going to have a table up at the Washington Avenue Bridge, a table in Coffman and one over at the Dinkydome corner (15th and University). Here people can take a quiz on the life of Jesus and have a chance to ask questions—get a Jesus Challenge button—and a gospel of Luke to find out for themselves who this Jesus was.

At 7:00 PM in the center court of the Dinky Dome there will be a talk: “The Challenge of Jesus to Human Evil: A Moral Standard, A Moral Answer.”

Joe Johnson
612-378-1346
pastor@truenorthwels.org
WELS True North Campus Ministry

Os Guinness Lecture - April 27th (12pm)

A World Safe for Diversity: Living with Our Deepest Differences in an Age of Pluralism
Dr. Os Guinness
Friday, April 27th, 12:00 p.m. (noon)
Room 275 of Nicholson Hall

This is a a great lecture for students and campus leaders and a rare opportunity to hear someone of Dr. Guinness' stature on the University of Minnesota campus. For more information, please contact Matt at 612-378-1935 or kaul0038@umn.edu.

MacLaurin's 25th Anniversary

The MacLaurin Institute’s 25th anniversary celebration is April 27. After Os Guinness speaks, the reception will feature light refreshments and opportunities to visit with Christian faculty from the University of Minnesota, students who are active in the Institute, and Institute board members. Some of Dr. Guinness’ latest books will be on sale, as will be an audio CD of the evening lecture.

We would love to have you join us as we begin to lay the foundation for the future of our mission to bring God into the marketplace of ideas at the University of Minnesota. Tickets are $9 ($6.50 in blocks of 15). E-mail 25th@maclaurin.org, or call 612-378-1935.

For more information, visit the MacLaurin Institute's website.

Upcoming MacLaurin Institute Events

For more information about the MacLaurin Institute and their programs,
go to: www.MacLaurin.org.

Monday, February 19, 2007
Symposium on Civic Engagement and Moral Education, speakers include Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff (Noah Porter Chair Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University), Dr. Richard Bernstein (Vera List Professor of Philosophy, New School University), and Dr. Mark Bauerlein, (Professor of English, Emory University and Director of Research and Analysis, National Endowment for the Arts), 2:30 p.m., Cowles Auditorium in the Humphrey Center; free and open to the public.

Friday, February 23, 2007
First Annual Faith and Human Rights Lecture, From Exile to Torture: The Global Scope of Religious Persecution, Dr. Paul Marshall, (Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and at the Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House, Washington, D.C. and author of Their Blood Cries Out), 7:00 p.m., Room 50, Law School; free and open to the public. Funding support was received from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Thursday, March 1, 2007
Third Annual Faith and Law Lecture, Disenfranchising Believers: How the Federal Courts’ Religious Motive Test Violates Religious Liberty, Dr. Francis Beckwith (Associate Professor of Church-State Studies, Baylor University, and author of Law, Darwinism, and Public Education), 7:00 p.m., Room 125, Willey Hall; free and open to the public. This Faith and Law Lecture Series is sponsored by the MacLaurin Institute and the Christian Legal Society (CLS), with the co-sponsorship of the Terence Murphy Institute and the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, and the Federalist Society.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Nihilism and Freedom: Is There a Difference?, Dr. David Bentley Hart, (Visiting Professor, Randall Chair in Christian Culture, Providence College, and author of The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth). Response by Timothy Brennan (Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota), 7:00 p.m., Room 125, Nicholson Hall; free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 29, 2007
"I Tell You the Truth": Truth as Certainty and Truth as Mystery, Dr. Leonard Sweet, Drew University (E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism, Drew University), 7:00 p.m., Solomon's Porch (100 W 46th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55419); free and open to the public.

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Turning the World Upside Down: Israel's Scripture in Luke-Acts, Dr. Richard Hays, (George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School), 7:00 p.m., Room 102, Fraser Hall; free and open to the public.

Church & State Debate - November 30, 7:30pm

November 30, 2006
Debate on Church & State:
Does the First Amendment Require the Separation of Church and State?
Charles Shreffler (Mohrman & Kaardal P.A.) and Edward Tabash (Americans United for the Separation of Church and State), 7:30 p.m., Room 150, Tate Lab of Physics; free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Campus Atheists and Secular Humanists

Dr. David Noebel Lecture - October 27

The Dr. David Noebel is speaking this Friday October 27th at 1 pm in the 1701 class room building, room 143 on the topic of the religion of secular humanism and it's stranglehold on the University market place of ideas.








Download Poster--
http://spiritformed.com/Attend/Noebel_poster06.pdf

David and Mary Jo Nutting will be coming to campus on November 9th at 7 pm and I've attached the info in pdf form. They will be at the president's room (332) in Coffman on that night.

Posted by Grant Buse.

"The Pope and Islam" Lecture - Mustafa Akyol

On Friday, October 20 at 2:30 p.m., Mustafa Akyol (from Istanbul, Turkey) will give a talk on The Pope and Islam in Room 101 of Fraser Hall (106 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455). Dr. Terry Nichols, Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas (and a former Board member of the Institute) will give a response.

Posted by Scott Noble (MacLaurin Institute).